How much does Honey Foundation give?

Honey Foundation reported 48 grants totaling $3,064,575 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Honey Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (40%), Philanthropy (27%), Education (12%).

Who are Honey Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Richmond Christian Foundation ($2.2M), Greater Richmond Aquatics Partnership ($1.8M), Rva Sports Foundation Inc ($560k).

Does Honey Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Honey Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Honey Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Herndon Foundation, The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation.

Where is Honey Foundation based?

Honey Foundation is based in VA.

Honey Foundation

Honey Foundation at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Honey Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.1M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$2.2M

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$3.9MPhilanthropy$2.6MEducation$1.1MReligion$573kHuman Services$422kFood & Nutrition$243kYouth Development$179kCommunity Improvement$119kOther$0

02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k31 grants · $77k
$10k–50k12 grants · $263k
$50k–250k4 grants · $525k
$250k+1 grant · $2.2M

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$9.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Richmond Christian Foundation	$2,200,000
Greater Richmond Aquatics Partnership	$200,000
RVA Sports Foundation	$175,000
PGA Tour Charities	$100,000
The Salvation Army Central Virginia	$50,000
United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersbu	$45,000
Scholarship America	$40,000
Veritas School	$33,333
Greater Richmond Partnership Inc	$30,000
Sports Backers	$30,000
First Tee of Greater Richmond	$22,500
Central International College	$11,000
Greater Richmond Fit4Kids	$11,000
Fatherhood Foundation of Virginia	$10,000
Davidson College	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $303k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.5M · 73 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

73 repeat relationships: 43 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.5M

$900k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+10%

Still filing today

67%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsHealthReligionCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

GR
GREATER RICHMOND AQUATICS PARTNERSHIP
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +190%
RS
RVA SPORTS FOUNDATION INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $560k · revenue +857% · 55% of their budget
MR
METROPOLITAN RICHMOND SPORTS BACKERS
9× · 2017–2025 · $510k · revenue +37%

Funded once

VC
Veritas Classical Christian Schoolgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue +77%
EF
EVERBLESS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $108k
BA
BON AIR BAPTIST CHURCH
one grant, 2019 · $100k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights

Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.

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The Richmond Forum

To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.

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Good Shepherd Episcopal School

The mission of Good Shepherd Episcopal School is to inspire each child to achieve academic excellence within a diverse, nurturing community that builds character and fosters respect for one another and our shared environment, locally and…

Education

New Schools for Virginia

New schools for virginia works with parents, students, educators and the community to improve educational outcomes by designing new schools and by supporting existing schools to improve outcomes.

Education

Rise Richmond Inc

Rise richmond's mission is to cultivate the god-given potential of students in richmond's east end through learning opportunities that equip them to flourish.

Crime & Legal

Academy of Richmond County

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Lead Virginia

Lead virginia connects leaders to shape the commonwealth's future through an annual program of educational forums and regional session visits to six diverse regions of virginia. framed around social capital theory and curriculum themes of…

Public Benefit

Vpm Media Corporation

To use the power of media to educate, entertain and inspire, using public television and public radio to make a positive impact on the communities throughout central virginia, charlottesville, the shenandoah valley, the northern neck and…

Arts & Culture

Richmond Center for Christian Study

To foster consideration and discussion of christianity

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Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…

Health

Richmond Friends School Inc

Committed to providing a quality educational experience for each child, creating an environment that nurtures individual intellectual, emotional, creative, spiritual, and physical gifts within a community

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater Richmond & Petersburg; the most unlike its peers is The Faith Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 122 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

75/78

Grantees still filing

52/78

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Recreation & Sports$3,029,875Other$2,900,235Religion$2,215,000Education$861,500Human Services$310,500Public Benefit$155,542Youth Development$104,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation IncVA79.4× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation Inc · Herndon Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Tesco Foundation · Williams Mullen Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation · Robins Foundation · Ukrops Homestyle Foods Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Carmax Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Honey Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Honey Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Honey Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Honey Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home